Worry Time#

Emotional RegulationWeek 4

It’s normal to worry about a problem & it may be useful to try ‘Worry Time’ to help manage worries:

  1. Write down your worry.
  2. Schedule a time in the day specifically as ‘Worry Time’, and put your worries away into a physical box or jar.
  3. Try to let the worry go for now, and remind yourself that you have a set time to think about the worry later.

    Note: You are not ignoring the worry, you are delaying it until ‘Worry Time’.

  4. During ‘Worry Time’, use the Problem Solving Tree . Decide on what steps you need to take to manage, change, accept or tolerate the thing that you’re worrying about.

Remember: Worry is there to tell us that something is happening & to protect ourselves. However, if it doesn’t fit the facts , we may need to do the opposite action .

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